The George Washington University will be hosting ACF Regionals for the Mid-Atlantic region on February 18, 2012.

LocationThe tournament will be held in Monroe Hall (#52 on the attached map; at the corner of 21st and G St. NW). The meeting room for the tournament will be Monroe B32

TimesRegistration for teams will be from 7:45 until 8:15. We realize that this is rather early, but we have a very hard cap on when we are allowed to be in the rooms that we have booked. You must be registered by 8:15, so we can go through the logistics of the day and we will start the first round at 8:30. We will have invoices available the day of the tournament for any team upon request. If you get lost on the way here or are going to be late you can contact me at (732) 284-1283. We highly suggest taking the Metro to Foggy Bottom GWU Station as the way to get to the tournament. We cannot guarantee that parking will be available in our school parking garage (21st & H St.) or on the street.

RegistrationTo register for this tournament, please email us at gwqt {at} gwu {dot} edu. In that email, tell us what discounts you qualify for, if any, and if you will need an invoice. Acceptable methods for payment include check (made out to The George Washington University) or cash.

Packet SubmissionAccording to the rules, every team with at least one person on it who played a regular, collegiate, academic quizbowl tournament prior to September 1, 2010 is required to submit a packet in order to play in Regionals. Please note that this requirement now also applies to eligible high school teams.

Please submit your packets to Trevor Davis (TheBokonon@gmail.com) and include "ACF Regionals packet" and the name of your school in the subject line. In order to meet any particular deadline, your packet must be submitted by 11:59 pm PST on the stated day.

Do you know what the charge is to park in the garage? The Orange Line is doing maintenance between the Virginia Square and Clarendon stations, and since the metro starts up at 7:00 and the bus service is notoriously slow between metro stations, I think that it's probably easier for GMU to drive over to Foggy Bottom. But if it's really expensive we'll take our chances with the Metro.

Neeraj Vijay, George Mason 2009-2013, Charter School of Wilmington 2005-2009

nvijay wrote:Do you know what the charge is to park in the garage? The Orange Line is doing maintenance between the Virginia Square and Clarendon stations, and since the metro starts up at 7:00 and the bus service is notoriously slow between metro stations, I think that it's probably easier for GMU to drive over to Foggy Bottom. But if it's really expensive we'll take our chances with the Metro.

If you park in the Marvin Center (H & 21st Streets) or Academic Center Garages (801 22nd Street NW) the maximum daily charge on the weekend is $11, as long as you're out before midnight.

ChrisThe George Washington University Quiz Team President (2011-2013); Member (2010-present)

nvijay wrote:Do you know what the charge is to park in the garage? The Orange Line is doing maintenance between the Virginia Square and Clarendon stations, and since the metro starts up at 7:00 and the bus service is notoriously slow between metro stations, I think that it's probably easier for GMU to drive over to Foggy Bottom. But if it's really expensive we'll take our chances with the Metro.

... or we could take the first bye.

Ben Cole, Southside '10, George Mason '14nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals/ the power of your intense fragility:

"I'll also note the humor in me defending high schoolers from Matt Bollinger." - Mike Cheyne

nvijay wrote:Do you know what the charge is to park in the garage? The Orange Line is doing maintenance between the Virginia Square and Clarendon stations, and since the metro starts up at 7:00 and the bus service is notoriously slow between metro stations, I think that it's probably easier for GMU to drive over to Foggy Bottom. But if it's really expensive we'll take our chances with the Metro.

... or we could take the first bye.

I can't guarantee that right now.

ChrisThe George Washington University Quiz Team President (2011-2013); Member (2010-present)

So you're telling me you can't guarantee us either? I'm not exactly sure what choices you're leaving us other than just making a random dice roll that could screw us over either way. Can we at least get some sort of resolution on the bye at least?EDIT: I completely did not see the post about the parking being $11 in the garages, although i guess parking would not be guaranteed. I would appreciate some sort of a decision about the first bye though, as that will help us make a decision about whether to take the metro or drive.

Neeraj Vijay, George Mason 2009-2013, Charter School of Wilmington 2005-2009

nvijay wrote:So you're telling me you can't guarantee us either? I'm not exactly sure what choices you're leaving us other than just making a random dice roll that could screw us over either way. Can we at least get some sort of resolution on the bye at least?

If you park in one of those garages, you'll be fine. I can't get any resolution on the bye until I know for sure what order the packets are going to be in.

ChrisThe George Washington University Quiz Team President (2011-2013); Member (2010-present)

nvijay wrote:So you're telling me you can't guarantee us either? I'm not exactly sure what choices you're leaving us other than just making a random dice roll that could screw us over either way. Can we at least get some sort of resolution on the bye at least?

If you park in one of those garages, you'll be fine. I can't get any resolution on the bye until I know for sure what order the packets are going to be in.

Look, you can give them the first round bye and read really whatever blind packet you want in the first round (so long as they didn't submit a packet, in which case you read their packet first).

Charles Martin Jr.University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignAcademic Buzzer Team | PresidentB.S. in Accountancy, August 2011B.S. in Finance, August 2011MAS Program, Class of 2012

Honestly, I think you'll be fine if you drive. The parking garages are pretty large and considering how early it will be, it shouldn't be full. The Academic Center garage should have places available and will only cost $11 for the day. We understand your situation, but I'm not going to commit the first round bye yet. We have teams coming from Philadelphia and Delaware, so I don't want to commit it yet. Please keep us posted in the morning and we'll let you know about it then.

ChrisThe George Washington University Quiz Team President (2011-2013); Member (2010-present)

chrislo wrote:Honestly, I think you'll be fine if you drive. The parking garages are pretty large and considering how early it will be, it shouldn't be full. The Academic Center garage should have places available and will only cost $11 for the day. We understand your situation, but I'm not going to commit the first round bye yet. We have teams coming from Philadelphia and Delaware, so I don't want to commit it yet. Please keep us posted in the morning and we'll let you know about it then.

In your e-mail of four days ago, you wrote:

We highly suggest taking the Metro to Foggy Bottom GWU Station as the way to get to the tournament. We cannot guarantee that parking will be available in our school parking garage (21st & H St.) or on the street.

so VCU planned to get up really early and get to Springfield in time to take the Metro (also not knowing we could demand a first-round bye by angrily posting about it or calling in Charles Martin to caterwaul on our behalf).

Can somebody give a definitive answer at this late date, fourteen hours and change before the tournament, as to whether parking will be available, so that I can consult with VCU as to when we need to leave, sometime before the time when people need to go to sleep if they're going to get up at 4 AM?

chrislo wrote:Honestly, I think you'll be fine if you drive. The parking garages are pretty large and considering how early it will be, it shouldn't be full. The Academic Center garage should have places available and will only cost $11 for the day. We understand your situation, but I'm not going to commit the first round bye yet. We have teams coming from Philadelphia and Delaware, so I don't want to commit it yet. Please keep us posted in the morning and we'll let you know about it then.

In your e-mail of four days ago, you wrote:

We highly suggest taking the Metro to Foggy Bottom GWU Station as the way to get to the tournament. We cannot guarantee that parking will be available in our school parking garage (21st & H St.) or on the street.

so VCU planned to get up really early and get to Springfield in time to take the Metro (also not knowing we could demand a first-round bye by angrily posting about it or calling in Charles Martin to caterwaul on our behalf).

Can somebody give a definitive answer at this late date, fourteen hours and change before the tournament, as to whether parking will be available, so that I can consult with VCU as to when we need to leave, sometime before the time when people need to go to sleep if they're going to get up at 4 AM?

I was being a tad overly cautious, because while there should be parking it definitely would not be free and one doesn't know what will happen. There are several parking garages, some of which are from GW, others of which are not. If you're going to drive, you should be able to find parking. It will cost money, however.

ChrisThe George Washington University Quiz Team President (2011-2013); Member (2010-present)

**Full disclosure: The player stats for the final round (tossups, negs, etc) for some reason the final round data didn't save in the final and therefore only the scores for that round exist. I am very sorry for this mistake.

ChrisThe George Washington University Quiz Team President (2011-2013); Member (2010-present)